Blue Creek Coal Mire 10/05/00: Carboniferous, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paleostachya sp. non-seed repro
1 specimen
Rachis sp. axis
61 specimens
Holcospermum sp. seed/fruit Nathorst 1914
2 specimens
Sphenopteridae
Lyginopteris hoeninghausii leaf
12 specimens
Sphenopteris brongniarti leaf
16 specimens
Sphenopteris cf. schatzlarensis leaf
2 specimens
Sphenopteris pottsvillea leaf Gastaldo and Boersma 1983
35 specimens
Sigillariaceae
Sigillaria elegans axis
2 specimens
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophylloides sp. leaf Snigirevskaya 1958
101 specimens
Lepidodendron aculeatum axis Sternberg 1820
1 specimen
unclassified
Macrostachya sp. non-seed repro Schimper 1869
2 specimens
Ginkgoopsida - Callistophytales
Eremopteris sp. leaf Schimper 1869
1 specimen
Coniferales
Lepidostrobus sp. non-seed repro Brongniart 1828
13 specimens
Pteropsida
Neuropteridium sp. leaf Schimper 1879
1 specimen
Pecopteris arborescens leaf
10 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Hymenophyllales - Hymenophyllaceae
Eusphenopteris lobata leaf
9 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Annularia radiata leaf
7 specimens
Annularia sphenophylloides leaf
2 specimens
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Asterophyllites grandis leaf
14 specimens
Asterophyllites longifolius leaf
6 specimens
Calamites cisti axis
9 specimens
Calamites suckowi axis
12 specimens
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Palmatopteris furcata leaf Brongniart 1893
3 specimens
Neuropteridae
Neuralethopteris smithsii leaf Lesquereux 1880
1 specimen
Neuralethopteris pocahontas leaf White 1900
1 specimen
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Pinnulariaceae
Pinnularia sp. root Ehrenberg 1843
7 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 87.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.7° South, 32.2° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1-5
*Period:Middle Carboniferous
Key time interval:Carboniferous
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pottsville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Mary Lee Coal zone, Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, AL; Ultimate forest floor litter in tidalite deposits
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: Heterolithic pin-stripe laminations of coarse siltstone and fine mudstone; tidalites
Environment:mire/swamp Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression,adpression,concretion
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Rock censused:10000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:31032
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:R. Gastaldo
Modifier:R. Gastaldo Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-07 13:07:09 Last modified:2003-04-07 16:07:14
Access level:database members Released:2003-04-07 13:07:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8339. W.N. Ware. 2001. A paleoecological study of an in situ peat-forming Carboniferous forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Auburn University, Al. 1-81 [R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo/R. Gastaldo]